si
/ˈsi/
The verdict
“si” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #482) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #482
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - refere-se à terceira pessoa, indica reflexividade e é usado após preposição (a, de, em, contra, sobre, por, etc., exceto com)
Corpus desk
Index PT-si · si · Portuguese
si · rank #482 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #482
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH longo
Nearest frequency peer: longo (-3 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “si”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- legal
legal
99,523 corpus weight
- longo
longo
99,522 corpus weight
- si
si
99,519 corpus weight
- uns
uns
99,516 corpus weight
- acesso
acesso
99,515 corpus weight
- campo
campo
99,513 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “si” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | si |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ˈsi/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “si”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for si is neighbouring look-alikes ("só", "su", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /ˈsi/. Frequency #482 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Gloss: "refere-se à terceira pessoa, indica reflexividade e é usado após preposição (a, de, em, contra, sobre, por, etc., exceto com)".
Zero misspellings are on record for si in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "só", "su", "SW", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is si, spelled S-I.
Definition
- 1refere-se à terceira pessoa, indica reflexividade e é usado após preposição (a, de, em, contra, sobre, por, etc., exceto com)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how si appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ele guardou o prêmio para si.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.